DistributionPolicy.Default

distribute

Gets the name of the target slice where the given newly persistent or
the detached, to-be-merged instance will be stored.
If the current state of the given instance is sufficient to determine
the target slice, return null. In that case, the runtime will callback
this method again before the instance being flushed to the datastore.
By then, the policy must be able to determine the target slice.

slices - list of names of the active slices. The ordering of
the list is either explicit openjpa.slice.Names property
or implicit i.e. alphabetic order of available identifiers if
openjpa.slice.Names is unspecified.

ctx - the generic persistence context managing the given
instance.

Returns:

identifier of the slice. This name must match one of the
given slice names.